pre|sag´ing|ly

pre|sag´ing|ly
pres|age «noun. PREHS ihj; verb. prih SAYJ», noun, verb, pre|saged, pre|sag|ing.
–n.
1. a sign felt as a warning; omen.
2. a feeling that something is about to happen; presentiment; foreboding: »

She could not sleep at night and was haunted by a presage of disaster (Samuel Butler).

3. a prediction; prognostication.
–v.t.
1. to give warning of; predict: »

The farmer told us that a circle around the moon presages a storm.

2. to have or give a prophetic impression of.
–v.i.
to form or utter a presage or prediction.
[< Latin praesāgium < praesāgīre to forebode < praesāgus foreboding, adjective < prae- before + sāgus prophetic]
pre|sag´er, noun.
pre|sag´ing|ly, adverb.

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